Abstract
Although truly discontinuous constituents were first acknowledged by American structuralists and early generativists, the case was soon made in the literature that analyses invoking discontinuous constituents could – and should – be replaced by transformational analyses that appealed only to continuous constituents. This case was widely accepted in the field until (a) positive evidence for discontinuous constituency emerged, and (b) nontransformational frameworks made the early transformational analysis of discontinuous constituents somewhat less appealing. Currently, approaches to discontinuous constituency are being investigated that broaden the scope of linear order statements so as to apply to both sister and nonsister constituents.
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